Description
How scientific discoveries and practice were integrated into nineteenth-century French culture and thought.
About the Author
Robert Fox is professor emeritus of history of science at the University of Oxford. He was awarded the History of Science Society's 2015 Sarton Medal for lifetime scholarly achievement. He is the editor of Technological Change: Methods and Themes in the History of Technology.
Reviews
In writing a history of science and cultural politics in nineteenth-century France, Fox has achieved a formidable and admirable synthesis. -- Mary Jo Nye Metascience Such a bold undertaking would flounder in the hands of anyone not possessed of superior scholarship and decades of experience. Savant and the State could have been written by no one other than Robert Fox. -- Clifford Cunningham Sun News Network A skilful balance between speculative and thought-provoking thematic work and accounts of the specific, the confined, and the material... Brilliant and well-researched. -- Sophie Waring British Journal for the History of Science This work should be of inestimable value to all historians of science, France, and European culture. -- Martin S. Staum American Historical Review A valuable synthesis of the variety of political and cultural roles played by the scientific enterprise in France from the end of the First Empire to the outbreak of World War I... A broad-ranging, balanced survey of the state of the field... In The Savant and the State, Fox has written what is likely to remain the definitive survey of public science in nineteenth-century France for some time to come. -- Alex Csiszar Journal of Modern History
Awards
Winner of Sarton Medal for Lifetime Scholarly Achievement 2015 (United States).
Book Information
ISBN 9781421405223
Author Robert Fox
Format Hardback
Page Count 408
Imprint Johns Hopkins University Press
Publisher Johns Hopkins University Press
Weight(grams) 771g
Dimensions(mm) 235mm * 156mm * 31mm